India sees steady recovery rate, reduced fatality rate

India had registered a total of 20,85,124 lakh

Covid-19 cases, and the toll stood at 42,554, as per covid19India.org.

There were 60,622 new cases and 923 deaths during the day.

The Union health ministry said India continues on the path of Covid-19 management boosted by two significant achievements — continuously rising recovery rate and reducing case fatality rate (CFR) which is much below the global average. The recovery rate on Friday was recorded 68 per cent, while the CFR dropped down to a new low of 2.05 per cent.

“These two in tandem have enabled a higher and rising difference (more than 7.7 lakhs) between the number of recovered patients and active cases in India. Ramped up hospital infrastructure and emphasis on efficient treatment of hospitalised patients through the standard of care incorporated in the clinical treatment protocol issued by the Centre, have effectively ensured improvement in the recovery rate.

The average daily recovered cases (seven day moving average) have increased from around

26,000 cases to 44,000 cases in the last two weeks,” health ministry officials said.

The recoveries were

13,78,105 after close to

50,000 persons were discharged in one day.

Health economist Rijo M. John, India is expected to add another ten lakh (one million) cases in the next

14 days. “While some of the big burden states seem to have either reduced the daily new cases or plateaued, at least for now, there are others who see daily new highs. 33 States/UTs now have at least a

1,000 plus Covid-19 cases,” he said.